Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American.

Without God, democracy cannot and will not long endure.

We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor.

I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless you do something to starve it.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

Politics is, for me, forgive and -as you may have heard- sometimes forget.

Too often, people forget the basic fact of life: all those good things we enjoy come from the ache in [our] backs and the willingness to shoulder great personals risks.